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Picciotto Honored with Pólya Award Picciotto


Henri Picciotto (www.MathEducationPage.org), a math education consultant and frequent guest leader at the AIM Math Teachers’ Circle, received the 2016 George Pólya Award from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Te Pólya Award is given for articles of expository excellence published in Te College Mathematics Journal. Picciotto’s article, titled “Square-Sum Pair Partitions,” was co-written with Gordon Hamilton (www.MathPickle.com) and Kiran Kedlaya (University of California, San Diego). Te article grew out of a blog post Picciotto wrote about the following problem: “Arrange the whole numbers from 1 to 18 into nine pairs, so that the sum of the numbers in each pair is a perfect square.” In subsequent blog posts, Picciotto sought help as he tried to generalize the problem, and discussed his own experience with this problem as evidence that well-targeted hints can be a good thing. Te blog posts inspired the resulting paper, which was


published in the September 2015 College Mathematics Journal. Te article can be found at www.mathedpage. org/attc/in-addition/cmj-sq-sum-particitions.pdf. ⊆


Borchelt, Faughn Present at ICME Borchelt Faughn


Nathan Borchelt and Axelle Faughn (Western Carolina University and Smoky Mountain MTC) were selected to present at the International Congress on Mathematical Education in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2016 (www.icme13. org). International Congresses are held every four years and offer a unique opportunity for mathematics educators from the around the world to discuss issues related to mathematics education. Participants interact with mathematics educators from around the world, listen to world-renowned scholars in mathematics and mathematics education, and take part in small, focused topic study groups on a wide range of topics. During the conference, Borchelt and Faughn co-led a workshop, co-presented a paper,


and gave a poster presentation, all of which were focused on Math Teachers’ Circles. ⊆ ⊆ 16 MTCircular · Summer/Autumn 2016 · American Institute of Mathematics


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